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A compendium to match Radio 4: boring, but somehow gripping

A review of For the Love of Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion, by Caroline Hodgson. Bet you didn’t know Arthur Scargill and Cilla Black both chose the Mona Lisa as their Desert Island Discs luxury

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  • For the Love of Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion

    Caroline Hodgson

    Summersdale, pp. 208

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